Smith v. Sanitary District

This appeal is from a judgment for $8000 for permanent injury done to the land of Frank T. Smith in his life, by overflowing it. The land consisted of several tracts, amounting to 435 acres. The homestead, consisting of 130 acres, was situated a short distance east of the city of Depue, and extended south across the tracks of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company to and into the north edge of Lake Depue. Dake Depue is a lake two or three miles long, lying south of the city of Depue, between the city and the Illinois river, with which the lake connects at its south-western…